The Working Guide to Traditional Small-Boat Sails: A How-to Handbook for Builders and Owners
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| Rating | : | 4.23 (703 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1891369679 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-01 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
He feels that the only way to truly understand boats and sails is to use them. Similarly, there’s a nice mix of old and new the manner the material is presented: old in the cleanliness of the page design; new in the extensive use of colour close-up photographs to illustrate details of the rigs. Sailboats now almost uniformly use the Bermudan sloop riga triangular jib and a triangular mainsail. A concise and thorough compendium on using low-cost and efficient traditional rigs, the kind that not only look better but work better on small boats than their modern counterparts.” Gary Blankenship, Duckworks MagazineThe traditional’ rigs here are the kind you’ll find on the clinker plywood designs of Iain Oughtred and the like; rigs with polyester
He is the author of The Working Guide to Traditional Small-Boat Sails.. David Nichols has been designing and building boats for the last 15 years. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, he has written for boating magazines, including WoodenBoat and Boatbuilder, as well as writing and producing boatbuilding videos
Wade Tarzia said A good general resource for the small traditional sailboater. I like this book for its enoyable writing style and practical information on the rigging of traditional small wooden boats. The various sails documented are the lovely and functional products of centuries of European and American boating tradition, and what is good in life should stay that way, and the author assists this process with his contribution to the subject. Indeed, what better way to insure the continued tradition of l. "Small Boat sails" according to G. J. Wicks. Thought I knew all I needed to know about small boat sails of the traditional type. As usual, I was wrong. Much excellent knowledge in this book; it is also a good introductory one for the newcomer to the subject.. Dissapointed in the lack of scope Russell Keller Traditional small boats come in several flavors and some of the rigs were included in this book. It does have some usefull information on basic rig types like the gunter and sprit however it lacks scope. I would very much like to see more rigging examples, pictures, and detailed descriptions of the lines, ropes, sheets, etc., where they go and what they do. I was looking for where to mount fittings and of what type. Where on/in
A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, he has written for boating magazines, including WoodenBoat and Boatbuilder, as well as writing and producing boatbuilding videos. He is the author of The Working Guide to Traditional Small-Boat Sails.. About the AuthorDavid Nichols has been designing and building boats for the last 15 years